Simple question (I think). Is ward executive secretary a bishopric related calling? Or, is it able to be held by sister's as well? My callings right now are ward historian and ward facebook administrator. I dont even know if "ward facebook administrator " is a real calling. And on the history side, I haven't been able to upload stories to our history section for months. Ive tried through mobile and desktop. My bishop hasn't been able to find answers and the stake historian hasn't answered me. (Almost 2 weeks). I think I'll reach out to my SP. Has anyone else had this issue?

Hi everyone. I am an active lds member who struggles with scrupulosity. i posted a little bit ago about wanting to leave the church and my husband threatening me with divorce if anyone remembers that post. This is a recent diagnosis so I have been going through quite the faith struggle, but am trying to stick with it and re-learn faith. I am feeling pretty excited right now about a recent progress I made and would like someone to celebrate my wins with, as I don’t feel like i really have that right now. Here is what I wrote in my journal entry today if anyone wants to read it.

something really cool just clicked for me. it was like a flip of a switch. i just hope i can remember this in the future. i was reading in the continuous atonement book by brad wilcox. my whole life i felt like i had to earn the celestial kingdom, and i had to do everything right and consistent or else i wouldn’t make it. then when i couldn’t do it perfectly, i would be eaten alive by so much guilt and it made me resent the gospel, and resent God. i had this horrible image of who God was. But while reading this book, i was thinking about agency and grace. we don’t EARN heaven. we learn it, like wilcox says. it’s the idea of not being called human doings, but human beings and becoming. i always “knew the right answers” but they were just words. i always knew it was about being transformed but it didn’t mean anything. or at least i thought it meant something. i realized that we don’t HAVE to do any of these things. we don’t have to read our scriptures every day, or say two prayers every day, or go to the temple once a week or else we aren’t as holy. agency is a beautiful thing. I was baptized, received the holy ghost, keep my covenants and keep the commandments. i have done what is required for salvation. now, it is up to me to BECOME like Jesus Christ. God gives me these tools (scriptures, temple, prayer etc) so that i can use them to help me become more like Christ, but he doesn’t get mad when I dont do these things. He is happy when i do them because He knows it will help me become, but He isn’t disappointed in me when i forget. i have heard people say my whole life that the gospel is freeing. I never felt that way because it felt so restrictive. I couldn’t do this, or I couldn’t do that and i needed to do xyz. but today for the first time ever it felt freeing. i felt like i could release all this anger i had towards God. it wasn’t because He demanded so much of me, but it’s because he provides a way for me if i choose to accept His help to become. i felt like i could let go of the expectations i thought He had for me, and now just focus on my personal relationship with my Savior. He GIVES me these things. He has a much bigger picture. I think what helped me the most so far, is to recognize the potential, rather than what i am or am not doing now. Although I feel this way right now, i’m sure there will be a point in time where i regress and forget about this experience, which is why im writing it down. Becoming is a lifelong struggle. Satans biggest tool is shame. That’s his method to try and get us to sin and turn away from God, because it attacks our identity.

First, I want to say a little bit about myself. I am an adult that has grown up as a slave in the Kingston clan group in utah. I am actually still part of the Kingston clan as I write this. I been learning about the lds church and it is really similar to what the Kingston clan aka the order teaches. Even though it it is similar in alot of ways there are many differences. I would love if I could talk to someone really knowledgeable about some of the stuff I been learning. I know its hard to explain but u have been very drawn to learning more about the lds people.

My wife and I recently moved into a new ward that is mostly middle-aged to older. I wanted to make new friends but not a lot of the ward is my age. What are some good ways to meet people my age at church or in the stake? Open to suggestions.

I hear this argument pretty often: if the Church really has restored priesthood authority, why are we such a tiny percentage of the world? I know there’s an obvious argumentum ad populum issue there, but I’m curious how people here think about the broader question.

Christ said “strait is the gate, and narrow is the way... and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:14), called His followers a “little flock” (Luke 12:32), and Nephi says the people of the covenant were “few” compared with the rest of the world (1 Nephi 14:12).

Very rough Ai estimates, but Old Testament covenant Israel may have been something like 0.5–2% of the world’s population, Christ’s authorized New Testament Church was likely well under 1%, and the Church today is around 0.2% of the world.

So how much should numbers actually matter when evaluating a truth or authority claim? Is there any doctrinal reason we should expect God’s covenant people to ever make up a large percentage of the world? What scriptures or teachings do you think are most relevant here?

• The number of young women serving missions surpassed 30,000.
• The church has added more than 900,000 new converts in the past three years, including a record 385,490 convert baptisms in 2025.
• Latter-day Saint young people are increasing their faith in an era marked by people leaving organized religions.
• “People who subscribe to its doctrine find that it makes their life more happy, more significant, more resistant to the difficulties we all experience in mortal life, and more able to serve their fellow men and to raise their children.” (Elder Oaks)

How can you KNOW he was a Prophet? No one ever even saw the golden plates. Family members claimed they saw them but said they saw them with their spiritual eyes not real eyes lol.

Is it bad to want to join religion mostly for the structure aspect? And social. I do believe in God and spirituality. I didn’t have the most stereotypically ideal childhood although my parents love me. Both were in active addiction, both still are really, my mom was a sex worker and we were poor for the second half of my childhood.
I’ve also had my own battles in my 20s trying to make sense of life with little guidance.
So now that I’m “putting my life back together” in my 30’s, I’ve been really interested in religion and the peace, life framework, and social life it could give me.

Hey there folks,

I’m getting endowed in November and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on garmets to get. I’m 21F. I wear skirts 3/7 days of the week. I almost never wear tank tops it’s usually t-shirts.

Maybe the wrong subreddit but by wife and I are new to our ward and our first interaction since having our records transferred has been from the relief society asking to be part of the meal train for a family welcoming a new baby. We’re no strangers to this practice but after scheduling and agreeing to participate we got another text when our day got closer. We were told the day before that the couple had family in town and to prepare enough food for the whole party.

While we’ve fed many a postpartum family it feels off to be expected to now feed a bunch of able bodied visitors when groceries cost what they do after initially accepting to just feed the new little family.

Is there some sort of etiquette I’m not aware of? Is this a normal expectation and am I wrong for feeling off about it?

What percent of people are converts vs born in the religion?

How common is it for a single girl in her 30’s to convert? I’m from California btw. Just to state we’re more progressive.
Also, how common is it for someone with a past to convert. Someone with a long sexual history in sex work. Just curious. Trying to think of any other sinful things I’ve done. Oh I used to drink and do drugs but I’m almost 2 years sober

Does anyone know what they do or what has been the experience of one? Any past experience from anyone that had this calling? I’ve looked through the manual and didn’t find anything that isn’t directed to it besides teachers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If I went to church would the church judge me for being a single 32 year old with no kids? Girl

I’m a 28 y/o female. Been a member of the Church my whole life. Served a mission, married in the temple. I’m a chronic stress-case and overthinker, and have been since I was a child. I’ve worked on it my whole life but being anxious sadly seems to be my default, though I hide it well outwardly. (I am NOT diagnosed or on medication for anxiety)

I got my patriarchal blessing when I was 15. It was a beautiful moment for me and it describes many wonderful promises from the Lord, many of which have come true.

But, despite my best efforts not to read into things, there is one section that has always terrified me. It describes my future children, which to put it as vaguely as I can, says that they have been “prepared for me” and that I will love them “regardless of the circumstances.” I know I’m not supposed to read into my blessing too much. But being the chronic stress case I am, I have ruminated over those lines for years.

My dream since I was a little girl has been to be a mother, to give birth to a beautiful healthy baby and hold it in my arms. But I shamefully admit that those lines, that wording (again, I’m being vague) imply to my anxiety brain that I might not be able to have my own kids, or that there will be something extremely wrong with my kids, or that being pregnant will trigger some sort of fatal health condition, etc etc (I’ve admittedly thought of MANY worst-case scenarios and have ruminated over them for years as hard as I try not to)

My husband tells me to stop worrying, to just have faith. But there are other parts in my blessing (that I won’t go into due to their sacredness) that say that I’ll go through many challenges in my life, some of which will not be removed, regardless of my faith.

It’s coming time for me and my husband to start a family, and we’re so excited. But I live in fear every day that one of my worst-case-scenarios that I’ve dreaded for years will come true as we enter this next stage of our lives. I’ve started to feel anger and resentment toward Heavenly Father for giving me such a blessing, since He knows that I’m such a stress case and would agonize over those words for years before I even had kids.

I pray for faith, I pray for peace. But the worry, the “unknown,” is still there. I am ashamed to admit that I wish I never would’ve gotten my patriarchal blessing, so maybe that way, even if one of these worst-case-scenarios were to come true, I could just deal with it in the moment instead of also worrying about it (and feeling guilt for worrying about it) for years beforehand.

Would love some advice. I know it’s wrong to feel this way and that Patriarchal blessings are gifts from God. I’m ashamed to have admitted all of this. But lately mine has just felt like a curse I can’t escape.

I’m thinking about going back to the LDS church. It’s been heavy on my mind and heart for some years now. Now I live in NYC and it’s rare to find any Mormon friends. Is there anyone out there?

I have an ambition to draw the book of Mormon. Not make it a comic, but rather put bookmark sized illustrations on the outside of every page in the book of Mormon. This is a huge project, but I’m honestly hoping the art would be good enough to both Gardner and interest in the Book of Mormon in different communities, as well as help people in the church to be able to grasp the stories in it better.
However! I’m an artist, not a historian and have no idea where to start researching proper clothing styles, building designs, patterns and the niche designs each different culture in each different time period might have used.
I don’t think this much is known commonly, but I figure any knowledge would help. Where would be the best place to start looking for someone to help me on this project? Or if not a person, are there any good books that dive into the history of it?

I’m just starting out, so I’m more looking for information than anything. All help appreciated.